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• Catalog, comment and control your SAP metadata.

• Create custom catalog entries and document your whole BI.

By adding an Active Directory, existing Users of the domain can be imported. Users with a link to the Active Directory can use Single Sign-On for easier login.

• Go to the settings via the cog icon in the upper right corner of the application.

• Go to Active Directory, the fifth setting from the top on the left side.

• Choose “Add Domain“ to add your Domain.

• Switch “Automatic user login“ ON to activate the Single Sign-on with added domains.

• Switch “Create new users at login“ ON to allow domain users to login without a manual creation. Automatically created user will have the default role, specified in the corresponding domain.

In the Profile, Users can make personal settings (Avatar (displayed Icon), E-Mail, Language, etc.).

• Go to your user profile via your avatar icon in the upper right corner of the application.

• Edit your profile to adjust personal data, your profile picture or other settings.

• Save your changes.

Entities in the Enterprise Glossary can be organized in Folders via a Directory that is displayed in the Sidepanel.

• Go to the side panel and right click the Enterprise Glossary folder.

• Select “Add to Folder > New Folder“ and create a new folder beneath the Enterprise Glossary folder.

• Synchronized SAP Entities and manually created Custom Entities can be linked in Folders.

• You can also create links to other websites and display them either in an iFrame within Enterprise Glossary or in a new tab.

Users can have multiple Roles assigned. With them you can define what a user can see and access. You can restrict the folders that a user can see or edit, you can limit the entity types that are accessible by a user or that can be edited by an author.

• Go to the Roles via the cog icon in the upper right corner of the application.

• Create a new Role.

• Go to the role authorization via the key icon in the actions column or the button in the function panel.

• Adjust the settings to fit your needs.

You can add a text comment to each SAP Entity that can be read without opening the SAP Entity eg. in the context of another SAP Entity. That way you can for example read about an Variable in the context of a Query without leaving the Query.

• Go to “SAP Entities“ in the main navigation.

• Click the Comment icon in the Actions column for the SAP Entity you want to comment on.

• Enter your comment and save.

OR

• Open the SAP Entity you want to comment on.

• Click the “Comment” button in the function panel.

• Enter your comment and save.

Synchronized SAP Entities can be linked as a shortcut in one or multiple folders.

• Go to the side panel and right click a folder.

• Select “Add to folder > Link SAP Entities“.

• Select the desired Entities from the popup and click on “Add“.

All users can post discussions about any accessible Entity, no author rights required. This allows questions to be asked and answered, additional information to be provided, and so on.

• Open an Entity you want to discuss.

• Open the discussions panel on the lower left border of the Entity.

• Post a new discussion or reply to an existing one.

Entities in the Enterprise Glossary have versions that are saved when changes are published. These versions can be browsed, revealing previous states of the Entity.

• Open an Entity whose versions you want to browse.

• Open the versions panel on the lower left border of the Entity.

• Select a version that you want to view.

As a typical analysis in the SAP environment, the Enterprise Glossary provides a where-used list for supported object types on a separate tab. This allows you to quickly get an overview of the Entities in which a certain SAP object is used.

• Open an Entity whose usage in other Entities you want to analyze.

• Navigate to the Where-Used tab.

• Fields list all the Entities that use the Entity.

The Where-Used Analysis is available for the following object types:

Business Warehouse

• Basic Key Figures

• Characteristics

• Navigation Attributes

• Queries

• Restricted Key Figures

• Variables

HANA

• Calculation Views

The Enterprise Glossary allows you to perform an analysis of the elements used by an SAP object. This gives you a quick overview of the structure of an SAP object.

• Open an Entity whose usage of other Entities you want to analyze.

• Navigate to the Used Elements category on the overview tab.

• The Used Elements Field lists the Entities that are used.

The Where-Used Analysis is available for the following object types:

Business Warehouse

• Analysis for Office

• Design Studio

Business Objects

• Analysis for Office

• Design Studio

• Lumira

• Web Intelligence

SAP Analytics Cloud

• Analytic Applications

• Stories

You can add previously removed SAP Fields or create new Custom Fields to add more manual information to your Entities. Custom Fields allow you to add any manual information to your SAP Entities.

• Go to “Templates > SAP Templates“

• Edit the SAP Template corresponding to the object type you want to adjust.

• To add a previously removed SAP Field, drag and drop the Field from the field selection into the layout.

• To add a new Custom Field, click the button “Add Field“ above the field selection.

• Specify and save your Field.

• To add the new Custom Field, change the tab in the field selection to “Fields“. Then drag and drop the Field from the field selection into the layout.

The first step in creating your first Custom Entity is to create the Fields that will make up your Custom Entity. You can choose from several different types of Fields to display the information you want. You can either use a text-based Field (text, long text, rich text) where the Author of the Entity can later enter text freely. Or you can use a value-based Field (checkbox, radio button, drop-down list, token, user selection, date & time) where the Entity author can later choose from a list of predefined values.

• Go to “Templates > Custom Fields”.

• Create a new Custom Field.

• Choose the settings and layout you want.

• Publish the Field.

The second step in creating your first Custom Entity, is to create a Custom Template that defines the layout of your Entities. You can select your previously created Fields and drag and drop them into the layout of your Template.

• Go to “Templates > Custom Templates”.

• Create a new Custom Template.

• Fill in the mandatory properties such as name and icon.

• Move the Fields into the layout and adjust position and size of the Fields.

• Publish the layout.